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EFFECT OF LEFT – AND RIGHT-HANDED PHYLLOTAXY ON YIELD OF THE DATE PALM

Article number
175_38
Pages
257 – 258
Language
English
Abstract
Individual date palms show either right – or left – oriented foliar spirals, but the orientation is apparently not genetically controlled.
Palms with a left-spiral yielded more fruit than those with a right-spiral during four years of an experiment.

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Authors
O. Reuveni
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